As we enter the opening soon of nominations for the 2023 Open Awards for Excellence this episode ought to inspire you with our conversation recorded way back in December with Ewan McAndrew, last year’s winner of an Individual Award in the Support Specialist category. Ewan’s impact on students, faculty, and the wider community as a Wikimedian in Residence based at the University of Edinburgh is deep and wide, a challenge to cover in just an hour of conversation. Starting in the shadow of his workplace adjacent to the iconic Castle, we hear of Ewan’s spreading both the joy of Wikipedia and the potential of helping countless people become active contributors to the greatest body of knowledge we have today. photo of and shared by Ewan McAndrew Listen in as Ewan clearly demonstrates the value and that the ways into this act are something he has repeatedly shown people can do in one sitting. Through this conversation, the awarding to him in the support specialist category for the OEAwards may only partially indicate his impact as a Wikimedian in Residence. Episode 055 TranscriptDownload References and Quotes for Episode 55 Note: In the spirit of Ewan’s mention of “that joy of going down the rabbit hole of clicking through all the wiki links to find out about opening up obscure topics to a general lay audience” we maybe added too many links from this conversation! It is a strange kind of excitement. It’s weird how people love and know Wikipedia so well, but they don’t know what’s under the bonnet. They don’t know how that information gets there. They also think that there’s some sort of elves